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There are several ironies of my experience in working as an employee of the Indy Domain Name Start-up in 2001:
1. CEO always wants interest from high tech companies and VCs but doesn't realize that high tech skills and experience attract those firms. For example, my blog always gets viewership from IBM, Sun, Microsoft, Chase, and other VCs daily because I have the high tech skills and experience and can describe high tech issues.
2. CEO's girlfriend claims experience in management from DivineInventures but cannot understand how habitual lying hurts marketing in an inter-connected internet world. It is even worse as she has a Psychology degree and thus has the education to actually know better.
3. The best person to be able to determine whether a high tech idea is implementable in unique way to get users and revenue is not the unskilled college drop-out CEO with no real work experience. In high tech you want the most experienced and skilled developer as the CEO to turn the vision into reality.
4. Is not a good idea to withhold payment from developer employees because your idea is not technically feasible and you with your lack of high tech skills and experience think it might be feasible. It always will back fire even if it takes years to come to light.
5. Once colleges and universities find out that you are miss-treating potential programmers by offering false internships they tend to ban youfrom recuriting on their campus. Combined with habitual lying this tends to severely reduce your pool of potential employees to zero.
It is not that these two people from the Indy Domain Name Speculator Start-Up cannot grow up and finally listen and get high tech training and clean up the mess. They obviously could in fact grow up and figure out how to make every thing right so that they could get training in software development and build somehting.
But, just like the HP mess there is a choice to lead and clean up the mess or to hide and hope the mess goes away. Well the mess never goes away it just grows by leaps and bounds.
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